Think positively

Experienced DIY’ers and people who do this kind of thing for a living know that when you’ve just finished smashing something out, things look far worse than they really are. Once you’ve cleared the debris away and brushed up all the dust, the job looks much tidier and more straightforward.

And so it was earlier this evening with my bathroom. Because of the leaking cold supply and washing machine waste outlet that I mentioned in an earlier post, I had to rip away all of the boxing around the base of my bathroom wall at floor level to expose the pipes. And lucky I did too, because the cold supply was soaking wet along a great part of its length towards the hand basin. I wasn’t really surprised, I have to say and it just means that when I make the connections to my new electric water heater, I’ll have to renew a bit more of the copper tube than I originally thought. No sweat. The only problem is that with my family coming to visit in about six weeks time, I doubt I’ll have time to make it all good again properly, but I’ll just have to see how things go. Anyway, here’s how it looked earlier this evening.

null

As things stand, I would have preferred to bash on and re-do the whole bathroom, which is my long-term plan, but I don’t have either the time or the money to do so right now and getting the kitchen to a point where it’s usable for when my family arrives is my top priority. Now I can see the full nature of the task, I should be able to make some good progress tomorrow with re-doing the pipework as necessary and making the connections for my water heater. The rest of the week should also be available with little interruption as after the recent gorgeous weather and high temperatures, we’re back into a period of rain for the next few days. So no distractions, then, from getting the X-Air into shape even if I wanted too, more’s the pity 😉